Institute for Research on Retroviruses and AIDS (formerly known as National Reference Center for AIDS), School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina 

Mentors: Dr. Manuel Carrillo

Present position: Resident. Otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Role of immature dendritic cells exposed to seminal clusterin in maturation of naive T cells

 

MS

Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina

Mentor: Dr. Angeles Zorreguieta

Present position: Specialist, Avid Bioservices, Tustin, CA

Seminars, and Conference Presentations: Alexis Jackson, Carol Davies-Sala, Angeles Zorreguieta, and Marcelo Tolmasky. Optimization of the configuration of hybrid external guide sequences to elicit RNase P-mediated degradation of a target mRNA. CSUPERB 28th Annual Biotechnology Symposium, Garden Grove, CA.

Saumya Jani, Alexis Jackson, Carol Davies-Sala, Angeles Zorreguieta, and Marcelo E. Tolmasky. Optimization of configurations and chemistries of bridged nucleic acids-containing oligomers as external guide sequences. CSUPERB 29th Annual Biotechnology Symposium, Santa Clara, CA.

Jackson, A., et al. (2016). "Assessment of configurations and chemistries of bridged nucleic acids-containing oligomers as external guide sequences: a methodology for inhibition of expression of antibiotic resistance genes." Biol Methods Protoc 1(1)

Jani, S., Jackson, A., et al. (2018). "Assessment of External Guide Sequences' (EGS) Efficiency as Inducers of RNase P-Mediated Cleavage of mRNA Target Molecules." Methods Mol Biol 1737: 89-98

 

Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London

Mentor: Dr. Richard Harvey

Present position: PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations:Andrea T. Duran, Helene Marbach, Bahar Rasul, K. L. Andrew Chan, and Richard D. Harvey. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy detection of lipid ion-pairing in the Staphylococcus aureus plasma membrane. American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2016 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

 

Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnológicas "Rodolfo Ugalde", Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina

Mentor: Dr. Diego Comerci

Present position: DO, Primary care provider

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Vaccine development - Molecular cloning and characterization of the chaperonin GroEl

 

Instituto de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Parasitología Médica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mentors: Drs. Daniela Centrón & María Soledad Ramirez

Present position: Senior laboratory technician, Johnson & Johnson, Anaheim, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Fuentes, B., Ramirez, M.S., and Centron, D. Dispersion of antibiotic resistance determinants in clinical XDR Acinetobacter baumannii isolates recovered in 2014. November 22 2014. Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research. Fullerton, CA.

Fuentes, B., Traglia, G., and Ramirez, M.S. Dispersion of antibiotic resistance determinants in clinical XDR Acinetobacter baumannii isolates recovered in 2014. 27th CSU Annual Biotechnology Symposium -CSUPERB-, January 2015, Santa CLara, CA.

Instituto de Investigaciones en Microbiología y Parasitología Médica, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mentors: Drs. Daniela Centrón & María Soledad Ramirez

Present position: MD student, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Beckford, C., Merkier, A., Ramirez, M.S., and Centron, D. Evolution and dispersion of insertion sequences in Acinetobacter baumannii recovered from clinical settings between 1983 amd 2006. October 17 2014. Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Conference. Los Angeles, CA.

Dpt. of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Mentors: Dr. David Sherratt

Present position: Senior Account Executive, Personal Care Ingredients, Presperse Corporation, US West Coast, Headquarters: Somerset, NJ

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations:M. S. Ramirez, G. Xie, G. M. Traglia, S. Johnson, K. Davenport, D. van Duin, A. Ramazani, et al (2016). Whole-genome comparative analysis of two carbapenem-resistant ST-258 Klebsiella pneumoniae strains isolated during a North-Eastern Ohio outbreak: differences within the High Heterogeneity Zones. Genome Biol Evol 8 2036-2043

Dpt. of Genetics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mentor: Dr. David Glover

Present position: Pharma/Biotech Global Business Development, San Diego, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Interplay of Greatwall and Pan Gu kinases in mitosis of Drosophila melanogaster cells

 

Department of Chemistry, University of York, united Kingdom

Mentor: Dr. Anne Duhme-Klair

Present position: Surgical Recovery Technician at OneLegacy, Los Angeles, CA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Development of siderophores as antibacterials

 

Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Mentor: Dr. Kieran Clarke

Present position: DPhil (PhD), Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, New Haven, CT
Senior Consultant at ClearView Healthcare Partners, Boston, MA

Seminars, Publications, and Conference Presentations: Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs): their ability to improve left ventricular function